The Small Business Watchdog

            We’ve been watching the stories about regulatory activity in the waning days of the Bush administration, potential plans by the new administration and Congress to review those regs, and prognostications on the incoming Obama administration’s approach to regulating.
 
            Here’s what we’re looking at: the deadline set by the Bush administration to get rules onto [...]

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Last week, in a special meeting, the Massachusetts Legislative Joint Committee on Consumer Affairs heard from businesses and social service agencies about the unnecessary burden they face from recently adopted data security regulations. The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations has adopted data security regulations that far exceed comparable Federal Trade Commission [...]

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            Senior Economist Jules Lichtenstein reports attending the National Economists Club luncheon on Thursday, November 13.  Len Nichols, Director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, discussed “Employer Health Costs in a Global Economy.”  He highlighted the merits and disadvantages of an employer-based health insurance system and pointed out that the properties [...]

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            On Chief Counsel Tom Sullivan’s last day in office the MicroBusiness Journal posted a podcast of Tom and editor Dawn Rivers Baker discussing all things micro.  Now that podcast is available for all to hear.
 
            Dawn notes that:
“…his work has impacted the bottom line of millions upon millions of small business owners, who have [...]

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            On November 18, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the creators of Global Entrepreneurship Week, is live video streaming (and posting on-demand) the California Governor’s Conference on Small Business & Entrepreneurship.
 
            The webcast is here: http://www.kauffman.org/EventDetails.aspx?id=5116

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Later this month, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will host the Governor’s Conference on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.  The two-day conference will provide small business advocates and entrepreneurs the opportunity to share their ideas and recommendations for stimulating California’s economy by assisting the over 3.5 million small businesses in the state. 

Over 300 participants are expected [...]

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Chad Moutray, Advocacy’s chief economist, and Jules Lichtenstein, senior economist, attended the National Economists Club luncheon on Nov. 6th in Washington D.C., featuring Stan Collender. Collender gave a post-election talk titled “The Morning After the Morning After: Outlook for the Budget,” and shared his views on the election.
Collender is managing director at Qorvis Communications in [...]

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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has proposed the Alcohol- and Drug-Free Mines: Policy, Prohibitions, Testing, Training, and Assistance rule. [73 Fed. Reg. 52136 (September 8, 2008).]
 
Advocacy hosted a small business roundtable on October 30 to discuss the proposed rule and listen to the concerns of small mining operators.
 
Small business representatives were concerned that [...]

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